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NQT Special Edition: Behaviour – Creating the right climate for learning

What is the secret to behaviour management? Andy McHugh says that the right climate is essential and that depends on the culture you create in your classroom...

Sometimes it does not matter what you have planned, you just know it is going to go badly because of the actions of a noisy minority in the room. Every teacher faces – or has faced this – in their time, but some with more success than others. And it is particularly daunting for those new to the profession.

So what is the secret? How do some teachers manage the behaviour of challenging students with an effortless air, while others flounder just getting them to pick up a pen? In this article, I propose that it is all about creating the right climate for learning.

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